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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · Sep 2

What I should have said here is that this is a clue (bsky.app/profile/text...). Consciousness is a mystery in part because it lies in between behaviorism and individualistic psychologism. It was BUILT for and functions through communicative sociality.

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Josh Fisher, A Function-First Account of Human Social and Individual Consciousness as Cultural Evolution Engine - PhilPapers

This article advances a function-first account of social and individual consciousness as the engine of cumulative cultural evolution. At the social level, joint attention (a We-mode) objectifies share...

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 9m

There is little difference between the impulse to put the Earth at the center of the solar system and the same to fashion education as esoterica--except that maybe the former is more forgivable. There are near-useless epicycles in both visions--that we love to argue about, obliviously.

Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 4h

I have an editor for this. 🙌

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Josh Fisher, A Function-First Account of Human Social and Individual Consciousness as Cultural Evolution Engine - PhilPapers

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 1d

Practically havin' a séance over here.

Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 1d

"I know nothing more idiotic, barbarous, and unworthy of the times in which we live. But I did not think I could meddle with the custom, although I was often greatly tempted to give public expression to my views." --Prince Alfonso Carlos de Borbón

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The Effort to Abolish the Duel on JSTOR

Alfonso De Bourbon Et Autriche-Este, The Effort to Abolish the Duel, The North American Review, Vol. 175, No. 549 (Aug., 1902), pp. 194-200

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 1d

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Other(ing) People's Children: Social Mothering, Schooling, and Race in Late Nineteenth Century New Orleans and San Francisco on JSTOR

Joseph O. Jewell, Other(ing) People's Children: Social Mothering, Schooling, and Race in Late Nineteenth Century New Orleans and San Francisco, Race, Gender & Class, Vol. 21, No. 3/4, RGC Intersection...

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 1d

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Why White Women Tried to Ban Native American Dances - JSTOR Daily

In the early 1920s, reformers obsessed over the sexual nature of some Pueblo rituals, and attempted to control their performance.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 1d

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What We Lose When We Lose Indigenous Knowledge - JSTOR Daily

By mistaking a culture’s history for fantasy, or by disrespecting the wealth of Indigenous knowledge, we’re keeping up a Columbian, colonial tradition.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 1d

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Wohaw - A Man Receiving Power from Two Spirit Animals - Kiowa - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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JSTOR @jstor.bsky.social · 1d

@jstordaily.bsky.social’s roundup for #IndigenousPeoplesDay brings together stories that honor Indigenous cultures and histories, dispels myths, and examines ongoing struggles and resilience.

Read the roundup: https://bit.ly/4n2pvyn

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 1d

Oh Solitude, where are the charms that sages have seen in thy face?

Better live in the midst of alarms than dwell in this horrible place.

Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 1d

Oh my gosh, like Han Solo!
For corn's sake, someone rescue him.

Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 2d

Education is complex. It's not physics, where brick no hit back. Be kind to humanity for figuring it out backwards and piecemeal. We'll get there--but not if we don't put the accountability, and the power, squarely where it belongs.

Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 2d

It certainly makes sense to pick on the Internet as a causal factor--and a big one. But let's be clear. If we knew what we were doing in education, the Internet wouldn't have been a problem. It can still best hold us in place when big social storms blow over.

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Opinion | Why Are the Democrats Increasing Inequality?

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 2d

"Ultimately, writes Cook, 'a majority of Union veterans proved willing to substitute an uncritical form of late nineteenth-century nationalism' for the once-powerful story—a usable past—of the victory against the abomination of property in human beings."

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How the Union Lost the Remembrance War - JSTOR Daily

The victors of the American Civil War failed to write their story into the history books, leaving a gap for the mythologizing of the Confederacy.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 2d

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Scientists discover life-sized camels carved into rocks in the Arabian Desert

The drawings—the oldest dated monumental rock art in Arabia—are the firmest evidence that humans lived there during a dry period about 12,000 years ago.

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Carl Hendrick @carlhendrick.substack.com · 2d

“It is powerful for a boy to see a grown man read. The lesson is best taught passively. My stepfather didn’t so much talk to me about books as demonstrate what it meant to have a relationship with them.” www.thefp.com/p/reading-sa...

Reading Books Made a Man Out of Me

Shiloh Brooks explains why he’s launching ‘Old School,’ a new podcast about great books and how they can make us better men.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 3d

Has a hint of Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? to it.

Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 3d

Incredibly good.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 3d

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The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)

Paintings illustrating Pliny the Elder’s account of the origins of art.

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 3d

Thoughtful piece. To the extent that I have thought along similar lines, I have always wanted curriculum makers to have an unconditional regard for the poor.
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Facing Up To Curriculum Trade-Offs

What will be lost and gained in the new curriculum? Here, I argue that the government's curriculum review must face up to difficult choices.

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JSTOR @jstor.bsky.social · 3d

"Rhetoric and Resistance" (published by @ohiounivpress.bsky.social) is now on the path to #OpenAccess! This title is one of the many in our Path to Open program, which expands access to scholarship from trusted presses.

Read the blog post to see the latest additions: https://bit.ly/42Zuybu

Cover text reads “Rhetoric and Resistance: The Literary Arts of Dissent in Nineteenth-Century Britain.” The pale blue cover is framed by intricate white floral/vine patterns that incorporate small placards and megaphones; a white raised fist sits near the bottom above the author’s name, Maeve Adams, in a rounded banner. The image appears on a dark blue to deep red gradient backdrop.

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Lynne Kelly @lynne-kelly-42.bsky.social · 3d

Hunter-gatherers choose to stay mobile - great article!.

Note: mobile not nomadic. They move through known locations, not merely wandering as 'nomadic' implies.

"The Mbendjele BaYaka have stressed the importance of mobility for the transmission of knowledge." Love it!

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The hunter-gatherers of the 21st century who live on the move | Aeon Essays

Why do hunter-gatherers refuse to be sedentary? New answers are emerging from the depths of the Congolese rainforest

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 4d

Or read this: www.huffpost.com/entry/gustav.... Much better than whatever that "lesson" was supposed to be.

Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 4d

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Josh Fisher @textsavvy.org · 4d

"Titles of honor and dignity once acquired in a democracy, even by accident and properly usable for only forty-eight hours, are as permanent here as eternity is in heaven . . . We adore titles and heredities in our hearts, and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege." --Twain